Balanced News: Taiwan wants to revive investment talks with the EU

Taiwan has called for reviving talks on an investment agreement with the EU, noting that negotiations have ground to a halt. President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen reminded that the EU announced a potential bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan in 2015, but has not made progress on the issue since then, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday. “The EU recognises that our partnership in trade and investment with Taiwan is a strategic relationship with geopolitical implications,” she noted and added “my colleagues and I in the EU Parliament have called on the Commission to launch without delay an impact assessment, a public consultation and a scoping exercise for the bilateral investment agreement between the EU and Taiwan.”